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AMS Blue Flag

Hello all!

After the most recent Crew Chief update (4.8.2.4), I'm getting constant blue flag calls in Automobilista when there's a car behind me (e.g., I will pass a car going into turn 1, and Crew Chief will tell me "Good move, eyes front." followed immediately by "blue flag"). Note that I am using mod tracks, but the same tracks didn't have this issue prior to the update.

that's really odd. I'm going through the code now - the AMS code hasn't changed for a while so it's unlikely to be caused by the 4.8.2.4 update.

The blue flag code looks pretty solid - your race position has to be greater than the opponent's (i.e. you're behind him in the race), and he has to be more than 8 metres but less than 40 metres behind you on track in order for it to trigger. It might be getting triggered if the game is sending incorrect race positions for opponent cars, or if the game is sending incorrect lap distance data. Was this an online or offline race? Does it do it for all tracks?

I've done some further testing - it's happening for all tracks (tested with the default Interlagos track, Patrick Girathon's Monza track, and a couple of GSCE tracks I converted). These are offline races against the AI. It seems to happen after I've got damage - I've included a snippet from the log from my most recent race:

So I actually think I fixed this - it wasn't a Crew Chief issue. I backed up my control file and then deleted my profile and everything seems to be working fine now. Sorry for the false alarm and thanks for your help!

Ok, so I didn't actually fix it by deleting my profile. However, I did fix it! The car and skin pack I was using is older and Crew Chief was treating it as a multi-class race since the Description field in the .veh file was marking each car as its own manufacturer. Fixing the description field so it aligned with the Reiza .veh files (eg V8: Driver Name) fixed the issue!

Oh that's perfect, because I can tweak the .veh files to fit the pre-existing classes. Nice, thanks!

I am not sure modifying .veh files is really neccessary. You can add your own car class definitions in CC .json file, and even send that file to us for inclusion in the next version. Just check what CC prints out under "Multi-class" string during session start. That'll give you names of how classes are in AMS. Then, you can map them in .json Cheers.